A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into six leaves.

plural of sextoness

A female sexton.

plural of sexto

A stringed instrument of Mexican origin, with twelve thick strings in six double-courses, with a short neck and a deep soundboard; a type of acoustic bass guitar.

plural of bajo sexto

A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell-ringer. / A sexton beetle.

plural of sexton

(paper, printing) A size of a sheet of paper resulting from folding and cutting a sheet of paper into sixteenths (3.25"-5" x 5"-6.25"). / (printing) A book consisting of pages of that size.

plural of sextodecimo